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Warnings of post-holiday Covid surge, continuing wildfires store up risk for ND
PoliticsGreek Politicssmall by comparison” unless the hospitals were better staffed and the public heeded the call to get... holidaymakers return to the major urban centres. A public information campaign is advising the public to get..., leans heavily on SYRIZA’s record based on the 2018 Mati fire in which more than 100 people perished
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Athens ponders impact of Turkey's role in Afghanistan
PoliticsForeign Policythe people in question get the necessary travel documents to arrive in Greece through other countries.... So, the ambassador left after staying at the airport for more than six hours. The next day, a Greek... operations have scuppered plans to get the translators out. Analysts also point out that Greece
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Opposition keeps pressure on Mitsotakis as surveillance issue sends ripples through ND
PoliticsGreek Politicshoping to get a boost from the announcement that ExxonMobil is about to recommence offshore gas... elections. Commentators note the reluctance of the parliamentary rank and file to get behind the PM... if the former PM were to adopt a less-than-supportive position on surveillance, it could start
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ND suffers ratings blow after train crash, hopes time is on its side
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Parliament. If the centre-right party only manages to get 32-33 pct in the first ballot, it could... as a major worry. It is the first time for many months that anything other than rising prices have... some of the measures it has promised in order to get trains running again, under safer conditions
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Greece aiming to agree updated migration deal with Turkey
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe refugee and migrant populations in Greece have risen by more than half compared to last year..., Athens believes that Ankara will begin a bargaining process with Brussels to get as much as it can... will seek - this time - to get this amount of money for its public administration since so far EU
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In leader's absence, cracks begin to show in SYRIZA's facade
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe legislation to allow same-sex couples to get married in Greece, but he is facing considerable resistance... difficult it will be for him to get a bill approved without it looking like he has little influence... will not want to be seen as less liberal than his economic opponent or beholden to the more
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Sports-related violence on the agenda again as PM struggles to find response
PoliticsGreek Politicsby a flare. Police responded by detaining more than 400 people and have since arrested an 18-year-old who... able to get to grips with the problem, it also leaves a mark against the centre-right... inability of the authorities to get to grips with hooliganism raises questions about the competence
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PM tries to rally party, hoping to overcome past indiscretions on road to EP vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis sought to rally the conservatives and get them to focus on the upcoming European... exception with his efforts to follow up on the spyware scandal. Whether Androulakis manages to get... business, seeking to grab headlines rather than to make any actual impact. Androulakis can also point
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Taking a macro snapshot
Agorawidely known is the figure of 17% of Greece’s labour force being unemployed for more than one year... is depressing enough, the figure that represents over 800’000 Greeks out of a job for more than a year... recovery that the troika expects in 2014 will not be enough to get people back into employment
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Down but not out: Golden Dawn rears its head again
Agoraof Golden Dawn members in handcuffs would remind people that there is a force larger than them... support for Golden Dawn at 10 percent, more than 2 percentage points higher than about a month... with Greeks' notorious lack of confidence in institutions. For more than a decade, public surveys have found
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